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“EDITORIAL PAGE| Wednesday, January 22, 1919 ESTABLISHED BY JOSKPH PULITZER, bUidhed Dally Except Sunday by the Preae Publishing Company, Noa 68 to - of 08, Park Now, New York. baat RALPH ry ATZUR, Prowident, 6%, Park Row, J. ANGUS SHAW, Troe. ‘k Row. JOSEPH PULITZER, Jr. 8 7. 63 Park Row nawn Anmvatchon shal heen THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. ATER NEWS confirms earlier reports as to the reault German elections, The Reds are more and more out o even in the eitic ! Democrats and what may be termed clements in the Socialist ran ave triumphed at the po over factions committed to violence and disruption The attitude of the United S @ruggies may not be one ¢ word, Ont nor the peoples of the Allied nations of Kurope can fail to view with ward Germany ition sympathy in the ordinar nse of the e other hand, neither the people of the United Sta relief and satisfaction every that points to a Germany st ng itself to, pr, facing its responsibilities and capable of pull 6etting its foet in the path of democracy German crimes have not ceased to be crimes, KB Pot ceased to be justice and necessity. Nevertheless, the nation that dealt German militarism the blow that finished it could not feel it to thei t to have sixty milli ‘ing a substantial section of Europe into un area of revolution, bloodshed and lawlessness. Not only would such a Germany be a source of the most dan inte nor more Germans now turn gerous itieal and social infection for the rest of the world, but ‘anew and heavy obligation might devolve upon other nations that ‘already « arry formidable load Moral sense and humanitarian instinct have developed too far in these nations to make it possible for them to stand as while Ger mans went on makir jermany a worse and worse hell for all men, women and children who could pot get out o The larger moral sense of humanity could not tolerate Ciing, even though under a former government Germany proved "Yeelf a ruthless and barbarous foe Whether materially or morally. the United States and the Allied Bations of Kurope would have nothing to gain and much to lose by Getting Germany be disrupted and disinte instead of gettin ated to a point where on its feet and meeting obligations it became able burden an unmanag That is why, without any change of sentiment toward Germany in the matter of , eas war-guilt, thinking Atiericans can be nevert! sincerely thankful that forces making for moderation and stability | have carried the day in German elections. | That is why, without laxing their demands for justice same Americans can listen with unde nding to renewed proposals that the blockade shall be lifted sufficiently to permit foodstuffs end materials essential to the manufacture of foodstuffs to pass into Germany. Where famine walk Nshevism rises with wild The strongest card of a stal rman Government w its ability to} eS ¢ point to food car, German 4 8 gal m spreads ¢ can plan and exc It is the most terrible of all infections ~ Biy R I Mc 3 ; y OV ue. cCardell Benin Germany i ys be fot with whaovr wil hil it qi Mrs. Solomon . Br lp ya ely rg Sk a eot—regardless H] f | F ay) 3 em ind } Ps | gD ee ar By Helen Rowland nates of Forty Flop and So Do Flappers Fair. mans theinselves can deal with Bolshevism provided its ally, starva- rhe Free Tobi r id SMITH had called s to Mrs Hicp\ fe kep}troin joining tt SS ; i, Being the Confessions of the Seven Hundredth W ife, Ri sare Hani weegeai te Hel BMI Gace, ger to tion! eee fs Concerning the Serpent in the Garden of Matri- ess be bad forgot 9 nail an 0 really must A vy mony and His Subtle Wile |) acca Clava atiuds Smith waved | Mr, Jart Mr was golug to 2% etters F rom t h e P eop l e ERILY, verily, my Daughter, the Serpent in the Garden of Eden was | her sable muff « vin playful ad- | flop he'd r stick around Complains of Street Cleaning Dept. the ety haw not enough dumps. On V but a simple and guileless soul beside the serpent that lurketh in Menition Sut T can't! y can't! Mrs. Te the Taiter of The ¢ Word the lower east the only dump | the Garden of Matrimony! Soni: you.ment. You dre obs insively Bea, 1 read the letter which appeared that we can use, that Ik of, ia ann the tories pane a j K tful creature he cried archly ht for you, going in #0- in The Evening World in reference to {48th Street, ‘They. have in 19th For the former came with lures and seductions end he cried archly at most men—es » clubs and all that sort of Street, but it is only for the use of the winking of evil eyes, but the latter cometh in the the conditions which exist in regard | yy , cully young men, ‘To her elderly y look to you for it, But j the city, Juat think, in the most con uise of a Friend, w mps id good counsel” |) t 1 aa tua: cusoval’ oF ashes and eeliian| gested ne, ie NOR 0. ® { ad, Wit ypathy and “good nsel" | husband she cried angrily and with two children and stuck in the throughout the city. As a private | Most of t ud ashe and sweet words of heipfulness just cried. But elderly husband | house os | am-—and, to be truthful to cartman, T think 1 can possibly give i‘ -. an > aut And there are TWO of them was not present now you, without the means to flop—how And the first is the faithful Bachelor Friend unto whom the bride you some information that may be of | such a long haul Yor horses, interest to you disposing of all the refuse on that Mrs M Smith had “just eth for advice after bis first/dropped int on Mrs. darr to make! “Your taste will teach you,” mm £ I believe that most of the taxpayers | ON dump creates a lot of congestion quarrel with his Beloved © latter ache with envy at sight of! plied the: vi matron. “1 in the City of New York are not fa HY ae t dink ‘oe ft if bey wands ul Behold how the Serpent receiveth him with the |the aforesaid sable mulf, with scare, always did say t s have more miliar with the scandalous condittona | geow is in, it Is loaded with one tine Glad Hand, and looks of gentle commiseration! Mark t match, style an any Ww I ever me that exist in the Street Cleaning De- of waiting trucks sometimes how he cheereth him, saying | Besides all this happy splendor, | You leud distinct the simplest partment to-day, and the ridiculous | | dave say that 50 per cent. of the lego. fe j Gent ; wah ¢ ‘i (Mrs. Clara Mudvi smith had al|things, You can fl You want to, vay they ave taking care of the rej City refuae and ashen in removed by KEN Romi ano _, ‘Never mind, Old Top! ‘Let not thy soul be|"™ "lire Sten Harel re oats y private men, vet they have to sub- | troubled by a WOMAN! For all women a One Woman—and that one, moving of the ashes and refuse of | mit to these inc diese 7 ®| When she wasn't wearing them she! Mr, Jarr, the eavesdropper, held | inconsistent! Alas, when a man weddeth he taketh un s bosom a col : rape ‘ this city pe that there will be someth'ng | , A aca ‘ {| always spoke about them. When she!'on tight to the hatrack. Where was “a ary econ to im a thane leet ic of caprices, entirely surrounded by te rament—a b le of! + + wamanh MAva | ; i We private cartmen are paid by Gone very soon to improve the tion of vay nti ; tr nded by temperament—a ut \ em other women spoke of! tie wife of his bosom going to Mop ditions: e firs yf sno} » YES tled an exceeding thin string! } taxpayers in order that the ashes gghen and refuse will remain In the AREY AG GAG UN AD SPAN ON 1H SELES If she listened to the voice of th and refuse be removed promptly each streets under the conditions that ex « I charge thee, if thou wouldst have peace of mind, be not disturbed s Mrs. Jarr or Mrs. Rangie|temptress, would she flop right day. This, as you know, is taking at thia time. It is very surprising to | bY her weepings and ngs and gnashings of teeth, neither by hor ‘I-wiil- ye told you, Clara Mu idge-| there, in the privacy of her fome auite an expense off the city. When M4 {hae the Hoard of Health haa not | go-home-to-mothers'! For by these will she rule thee, Be not a molly-|Smith might have the finest things) or was the flopping Malena: we go to the city docks to dispose of vy PRIVATE CARTMAN coddle, but MASTER in thine own house. For a woman is a dear little | money could buy, but money will not | cial public y she was ex- our loads, we are sometimes lied thing, but not to be taken seriously!’ buy that elusive smartness they term | pected to in?) Was it for 4: bef re Thanks to The World, \ , ew malignant v t t ir days before we can dump one ty viv Fulior of The Rrening World And thereupon he leadeth him forth unto the club and poureth the bi Hiss > NASA Oo Joad, and the Stroct Cleaning 19+! Ag Secretary of Aprinaficld Lodge forbidden apple of Hquid consolation down his throat. And the bride however, all thought the| this ete nes SRY aL partment can dump regularly, Very | s¢ mie T Pept Aes arb. fair young matron, Clara Mudridge- | that was following the “flu” througa very weldom they are held up. Vor win to thank vou for finds | groom roturneth unto his Beloved with false courage in his heart and firs) gut youns ma en ee reeent | ste icons often, after standing for hours he Mr. John J. Murphy, a member of in his eye. Prvpona ane ane y ni 3) 58 4 the docks waiting to dump, we have | thin lodge who wandered away: fror i | h, what | It ran through Mr. Jarr's mind to take our loads back, and Koop hia home in New York Cite, alee And the domestic armictice is over and the WAR is on again! | Jarr would grudgingly admit | ta mautinten ‘alls, achat theta until the following day, and our | wanr'to command von for pubtialing And the Second Berpent ia the consoling Woman Friend, unto whom t Clara waa “chic,” but atill there | women would be to next. Here per — a ne cee tan cette A various identificetion on the Bride spilleth her troublos, saying Wao somothing lack ci hadn't | they had just got vote most a inquiring why the refuse te! | anty th wees i a te ¢ Pag ? the grand air, Y Kin : nat Femoved regularly, ‘The eceuse tence mat, It were paesibie to talk Alcs, 1am dying of ennui! For John worketh 80 Inte at the office grand alr, Yee speaking a8 8! verewhere, and t arted “pyres lividuel or individuals who v5 o thing to moro far, Ag 1 | CvOn:ngs undersiand your article, Mc, Murphy Dohold how the Bubtie One kisseth away her tears and leadoth hor friend, one must be frank, Mrs. Jarr | would soy that poor Clara, while the city gives us is that there shortage of tugs and scows @ allowed ws of freedom" at th te House speaking to one of olaie of the ' waa about 14 he aent ce aan amart,” just lacked that distinctive|satea—with ‘nobody home,” ti Strect Cleaning Department a short for obaarvation id ine wan tebe h unte the (oa 6, raying lowar that !f aome one—well,| But wh was this flopper time ogo, an © tol e that all of * h . vuln HL ad ; s o> er m '- th sath Amen ist nm and learn more. (ine. ago, and ho told me that ali of |done without any effort to met tn Oh, piffle! Thou makes; me oxeeeding weary! Knowost thou not, | Mover A who--had those clothca | must Th} 1 ' y's refuse ie rem rom the eh with Apringfeld Lace of tt ‘ ; never mind! What's tho use No, "Clara, I really think } am focks by two tugs,and.an he put ‘ 7 thou Simple One, that the 'OMce' {a full of Wlondes and of Love pirates Pvc ph a TAAT oat Sena coma a pity that euoh actions or o wY anything? part those things,” Mr. Jarr hoard uge wouldn't pull the hat off to pase hy without sem ® stonogrephera’ cloning? | ‘a wif ly, “You flop—of course your head,” 1 cannot ea why taadet tn dant t ah ROMA Oh i Ho Mr, Jarr wee going out to mat} a ts Wife reply ou. Hop cours ity should not own and control {is Oh 6 raapenatility ‘Cease, then, to spoil thy pretty eyes with weeping, but come with MT Mra, Biryver can and Mra, Rangle THOMAS I, NALIY jotter aotful man! And Clara| own tugs and seowe, and not lave | VALIY, ( mune thyself, hy Neloved 4 oln, y | either, Party fon’ gen tone 60 Aeows, and not lieve i Reccnendy, #8 mune thyw fe thy Neloved in, peradveature, doing, For alt! sudridge-Himiih remarked that oven can't sither, and 1 nT don't GiAan coneatin. On the habieet of Tarrenniged Lanes, MO ATO bo ON) atone a bluffer! Go to} 8 world {s full] with @ mall chute in tho Highcoata | want to, No, I don ie Th tao ‘The only tima that wa private mon Of Thin Ronin Wo of nertous en Husband is NOT one of thom!" Arma, where sho lived, her maid o/ten ye SOUR TORFe pee biciet dep Wee ut tee mae RANG tine ue Mol pmapiose /) And pon the Wife re up her head and awalteth her Me. | fort to mall hoy a and (iat f acaalne t Will take {t aven if they hava Sos Monin Lovee n her eyes and suspteton tn her he | wag why Mra, dare tmda't goiten the is yippee dump it in ths river & , Umely an ’ ope and the machine guna ready for actlen| alon tothe dinner on time, a few ove When they do have a cow in the {Mil ma to way lo yeu and man y sr aaitat inet ery 4 vou! | nighia before, and it wasn't thal she, carmen Every Aoek, sometimes nftor it taken £0 anand ® ' i ho frul: of the Tree of Knowledge Mt Hmiih, had invited hep woman w enn flop will flop, or 300 loads jt becomes grounded, divs iy ha as 1 t ' # Serpant-'n-the-Garden-of Matrimony SRULUMG RlanMORA canAART CAE CIRAT and many . flop. to the amount of stuff is a Ar eeeerbel (POR ereciveth that she, whe seemed an angel ; " te ¥ dumped in the river when there is ¢ pape ag adage ie) jmomont, she ferret there we no scow there 2 Ww ad ill of frailty, And the Bride pereetveth that hel ihicteen at the table, as that ep 1 ing 2 will flog, The grafting of the inspsetors windy Or RAL OF tania anree that sved a demi-god is but a Human Being with feet of eley Mra. @tryver had interred surely you are nel ¢ ¢ tn relegaia men hermes of the mao ane i And Iridegroom perceiveth that she who seemed an ange! is but] During these remaria anid these re > f Ann. OF Blips m rageou am surpris ere 8 lierented ae : r ay , i “ ? y and your not been an investigation made In cuen \ ‘ L foreve lections Mr, Jarr'a getaway to Gue'n RY nae acan wn ve For NOT 1 to “know too m surviving cafe on the corner le 1, 4 a Apother thing thal delays us is tual dilions. tT Sela ee Bid diss, b aa id iu _ AMIBHUCA. Selab, | Mae Batrask iu he ball Be Reard (he guy,” wiiupered Mie, Jar, "Kou ' { ~ . — » =| Famous Poets | Made “Dry; In Which “Demon Rum” Is Taken Out of P By Marguerite Mooers Marshall. yeare, Bw With Apologies and Regrets to Omar Khayyam, Shak Et Al Copsriaht. 1919. by The Pres Publial The New York brening World HEN American aridity was an ideal, rather than an accom fact, the editor of a nationally circulated Woman's may complained to Rudyard Kipling about a story of bis the azine desired to publish. “In the 7 chided the editor, “ladies do not drink win Kipli “Make it malted milk abled Mr. Kipling Taking the hint from our greatest living J have censored, roughtly (but what is meter to moral the works of the world’s verse writers, and bave “ it malted milk’—or some militantly pure beve wherever a more diabolical drink Was suggest the original version. ao" * youn Here are the dehydrated results r onetae (Fitegerald: “Rubaiyat of Omar] Khayyam.") The landlady and Tam grew A Book of Verses underneath the] Wi favors, secret, sweet, and Bough } ous 1A Jug of Root Beer, a Loaf of Bread Inspiring, bold John Barleywa and ‘Thou SA diachte cba A Beside me singing in the Wilder-| ™ oo oar Ladd tetany Re ness. Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!| (Scott; “Ballad of Young & var,”) Ana y By the ern Door agape,| And now I am come with this Came shining through the Dusk an ful maid Angel To tread but one mea Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; lemonade ure, def and 1 me taste of it; and ‘twas—the | Grape-juice! (Byron: “Don Juan") Fill h au lait Drink! (spring water) for you know] Our virgins dance beneat h the bow! with Samia not whence you came, nor wity shade | Drink! (spring water) for you know } Let us have mitk, gruel and not why you go, nor where. | | {mirth and lauehter, | Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft be! fewinhurne: “Dolores.””) os when {All thine the last ‘ I swore—but was I sober when sah slain ; swe loin Ae And then and came Spring.| ‘Our pady of Pain and July i, 1 (Browning: “Ride from) Gh Soda has play'd| Aix.") And much as Van | the Infide {And no voice but was praisin, And robb'd me of my Robe of Honour | I I wonder often what the Soda viteasiire “or-"Y" cor clerks buy } One half so precious the (Browning: ‘Tabbi they sell. Let ou r All things| ting Kling (le ¢ nne KRubaiyat of Oma higl Khayyam, Would you a woman—drink : Laie. > ours. nor soul helps flesh red now, than flesh heips sou Would you remember her—then drink ed lemonade; (Tennyson ksley Ha Is vour heart breaking just to see! Woman ‘s the lesser man, and a he passions matel'd with mini hin this mirror--of red Gaze | Are as moonit lemonade, ~ as water unt unto suniighf black coffeed (Ben J > Celia.) ' (Lonetellow Skeleton in Art Drink to me with thine eyes, | There flowing bowl And 1 will with mine: butt K) Or leave a kiss but in the cup Deep dr the warrior's soul And I'll not look for ginger-a Skoal! to the Northland! Ske (Shakespeare: Plays.) (Stevenson: “Pirate's Song Dost thou think, because thou virtuous, there shail be no more c non the Gead man's Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of mf | Prunes and the devil had dot nd sweet cider Shall I not t mine ease in mine the rest, dairy-lunch? Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of m I do remember the poor creatures, | small temperance beer | (Robin Hood: “Drinking So} |In all ry days I sing the praise The chocolate soda of life Of brown October sarsaparilla, and the mere lees | (last toast of King Olaf— Is loft this It to brag of. hatton, June 1919.) . I drink to the earth, T drink to Come, come, good cambric tea is a sky ood familiar creature, if it be well] I drink to the sea and shore; used, 1 drink to the day that I have si And the days | shall see no ma (Burns: “Auld Lang Syne") I drink to the Prohibs that sent ‘or auld lang syne, my dear me For And the Headaman at the doors We'll tal malted miik yet.| 1 bless the joys that I have had For auld And the joys that I have mis (Burns otch Drink.") . ! have em me Andt To thy r O Cocoa shells! sovl o' plays an pranks! Accept a Bardie's grateful thanks! lips t I have ki ips that I have I raise this cup of carbonated (Burns um o° Shanter.") (Kipling: “Mandalay.") The night drave on wi’ songs and S$ mewheres east of § best is like the wi e seltzer was no Dry Amendment owing |W And The Beginning of the Buccaneers. HE first act n the 1 | bloody drama played and and the e bueca s of the Spanish Main and fron me the was staged at Tortuga 281 years v2 me y avy, re when the Spaniar acred ali the | emg vent paint settlers they could find on that 4, other n 1, ON condition of Tortuga wa the headquarters of the loot obt i from Spa the buccaneers, who were at that time| France and Mnagland empl traders and sm 8 rather ‘han! b neers a < thn sea robbers, About 300 of the | uso acted inde Ere sheant. f#om Spain ‘ © of time a time of the te fen iceaneer was en they returned and found thoir | Phe and the sea rovers comrades butchered, they raised the nations. Spain y ¥ black flag and declared war on m £7 with charge accounts everywhere A QUIETER PLACE, and able to afford the new styles and ve 1 the offical everything. But how can J afford to nitions plant w flop if I wanted to?” n one: mal You know as well as I do that it \s not what one has to have but what one can do without. Resides, 1 really bolleve massage keeps the fet down better than flopping. “M-a-a-h!" gaid Mra. Jarr, “I herve e ' didn't hear Mr, Jarr go out yet phanad «hac vail neat And she arose to peek down the ante to work fo private hall, but Mr. Jarr slipped out| said you were on rnd wae gone Rut all the time he rostration, and th and wondered, And he ask We anawered m ah beer the distracting pea Rp no. as the) With the morning at home, But ; had a bridge part this aft whole cour had ped (0 pro-|noon, So IT thought Vd he bere a on. ‘down herg."~Clevgland Plain